Word: fought
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Second, the authors say, unions help equalize the distribution of income throughout society. Over the years unions have fought for equal pay for similar jobs throughout specific industries. Higher wages for workers result in lower returns for owners of capital, thus narrowing the economic gap between management and labor...
...history professor recently noted in a lecture that minority groups historically excluded from the system have typically fought to become included. The recent increase in Black voter registration is one noticable example. At the same time, in striving to gain greater participatory rights for themselves, these groups have expanded the base of the very system they were once excluded from...
...Americans today--to become a Republican or Democrat--seem particularly limiting in light of the slim pickings remaining after presidential primaries. The distinction between both parties blurs when one considers that Democrats--the so-called party of the have-nots--have historically led this country into war; wars fought by the same "have-nots" the Democrats claim to serve...
...Last year, on assignment for TIME, he spent nearly six months in Central America, mostly in Nicaragua; he was in Lebanon for much of the rest of the year. Since then, he has taken his cameras back to Central America. Last month he was with Nicaraguan contra guerrillas who fought a bloody battle against Sandinista troops to capture a border hamlet. Nachtwey's pictures of that fighting appeared in recent issues of TIME...
...News, the struggle to defend its controversial 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception appears to be, like the war itself, a conflict of attrition fought on more than one front. It is still several months before the $120 million libel suit that General William Westmoreland filed against the network as a result of the broadcast is scheduled to come to trial. But last week CBS was engaged in a heated exchange with Macmillan, the publisher of a new book about the documentary, titled A Matter of Honor...